To:G. L. SHKLOVSKY

Written:Written prior to November 9, 1915Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from Berne to a local address.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages498b-499a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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Pleasesend 500 copies of the pamphlet (indicating Absender andregistered)[1]immediately and by thecheapest possible meansto the following
address:

||Mr.L. Lore(for A. Kollontay)German Language Federation Socialist PartySpruce Street. 15.New York(N. Y.)United States ofAmerica.

Accordingto your calculation there are orders for 500+500=1,000
			       (I.S.D.[2]gratis or at 10 pfg.?)+1,500 Jugend =2,500+500 America==3,000.

Itwould be good to start on a 2nd edition while the type is set up,but we have no money. Couldn’t we induce the
			       Jugend,[3]by giving them now 500 instead of 1,500, to arrange a dealthemselveswith the Berne printing shop for a 2nd edition? (How
much will it cost? If not much and if we can be sure that the Jugend will
not let us down, perhaps we could borrow the money and publish it
ourselves?)

Willyoupleasethink this overwelland arrange the
whole business.

Bestregards,Yours,V. Ulyanov

P.S.Please hand the enclosed letter tothat Lett(who took my
address from you round about 5–8.IX and called on me in Sörenberg on 10
or 11.IX.1915). Very urgent. Please find him as quickly as possible and
hand him the letter.

Donotspend a kopek more money.Don’t give it to any
body.

[1]Thisrefers to the pamphletSocialism and War.—Ed.

[2]I.S.D.—InternationaleSozialisten Deutschlands.—Ed.

[3]Jugendverein—theSwiss Socialist Youth League.—Ed.